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[palish]

How do so many websites break the zoom feature on iPhone?

So frustrating. Patio's massive face drowns out all the content. =)

[DanielRibeiro → palish]

It is a viewport meta tag. Sorry that the page doesn't work great on iphone. I am working on making the layout scale, and the page leaner for iphone. My nexus S views it just fine, but even it could use a better page.

[palish → DanielRibeiro]

No no.. We don't need a "lean" iPhone layout.

The iPhone is designed to view webpages. So make it a standard webpage. No special casing. =)

But... Really, just strip out the meta stuff for now. It's unusable on iPhone at the moment.

[DanielRibeiro → palish]

Ok. I've uploaded a new verion without viewport and without the overlay for mobile phones. Let me know how it works out for you.

[palish → DanielRibeiro]

It works!! It worksitworksitworks.

The layout in fact could not be more perfect on an iPhone.

Tell us whatever you did, so that we can refer other people to do the same, please!

[DanielRibeiro → palish]

I am glad it worked for you!

I simply removed the viewport metatag, and removed the overlay

The overlay doesn't work on mobile phone perfectly (it has to have its size computed on runtime, as I let the user bios grow as needed).

Also it is useless on mobile phones, as its only removed on mouseover (it gives the glow effect on the desktop browsers), and put back on mouseout.

As a good side effect, with less javascript floating around, the page renders faster.

[dzlobin → DanielRibeiro]

Just wanted to point out that the page is almost entirely unusable on iPhone 4, it freezes for 5-10 seconds at a time.

[0x12 → palish]

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[yarone → palish]

Same experience here. Totally unusable on iPhone.